NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1087

HOUSE BILL 1279

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES TO EXTEND COVERAGE UNDER THE CRIPPLED CHILDREN'S PROGRAM TO PERSONS WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS WHO ARE TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS THEREFOR.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Department of Human Resources is hereby authorized to extend coverage under the Crippled Children's Program to persons with cystic fibrosis who are twenty‑one years of age or older. Coverage shall be extended to said persons under the same conditions, requirements and criteria as are applicable to persons under the age of twenty-one.

Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the State of North Carolina to the Department of Human Resources, Division of Health Services in addition to all other funds appropriated, the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for the 1977‑78 fiscal year and the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for the 1978-79 fiscal year for the purposes specified in Section 1.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1977.